Mars Hill – 08/23/2012 – Guest – Julius Cstonyi – Atheist

Mars Hill Radio Broadcast: 08/23/2012

My guest tonight was Julius Csotonyi. He’s a freelance paleoartist working with various museums to reconstruct life-sized murals of various prehistoric animals and ecosystems based on his study of the fossil record. His work is viewable in the Royal Ontario Museum’s exhibit “Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants from Gondwana”, the new Hall of Paleontology at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, the new Dinosaur Hall at the L.A. County Museum of Natural History, and many others, such as the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology.

He also has a scientific background with a M.Sc. in Ecology and Environmental Biology and a PhD in microbiology. He’s performed research in biological sciences for 14 years. He’s also a published author in various scientific journals. He did start out as a fundamentalist young-earth creationist, but over time changed his position to an agnostic-atheist.

This is my response to Julius’ request that I refrain from using the Bible, my faith and believes when I talk about science issues.

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Jeff’s Show Notes:

My comments and the article mentioned about Dr Colin Patterson can be found on page 58 (ch 14 – Discussion Thread: Dr Colin Patterson quote / misquote) in the ebook:When Layman Debate
These are the words of Dr. Colin Patterson as he spoke before a large body of evolutionists and has been confirmed by attendees and Dr. Patterson himself.

“What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters”, by Donald Prothero
A really good book on evolution and the fossil record written by a prominent paleontologist, loaded with well-illustrated examples of many of the evolutionary series I mentioned near the end of the show (radiolarians, foraminifera, fish-to-tetrapods, evolutionary radiation of synapsids [often called mammal-like reptiles], land-dwelling hoofed mammals-to-whales, etc).